Project Legacy

Help us provide ongoing support for Holocaust survivors so they may live out our days with dignity and security.

Our Promise

Over 70 years ago, Selfhelp’s founders pledged to be "the last surviving relative" to victims of Nazi persecution. Since that time, we have honored this promise through our Nazi Victim Services Program, enabling survivors to grow old independently and with dignity. The majority of the 5,600 survivors served by Selfhelp live alone. As care giving spouses pass on, they are left without family support. Many are frail and during their final years relive the horrors of the past. And, a startling number are poor. They need our support now more than ever.

Our Funding Challenge

Studies project that this increasingly vulnerable population will be relying on us until 2025. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the primary funder of our Nazi Victim Services Program, will exhaust their funds within the next 5 to 7 years and their support will come to an end. We will be left with a critical shortfall. It is imperative that we begin to address that shortfall now so our Nazi Victim Services Program will endure as long as our survivor clients need us.

Our Solution – Project Legacy

In December 2008, Selfhelp launched Project Legacy, a $30 million campaign that will enable us to keep our promise to Holocaust survivors, that they may live out their days with dignity and have all that they need and deserve. Through Project Legacy we are reaching as far and wide as possible so that service to our Nazi Victim Services Program clients will be unbroken as long as they are alive.

Our Success is in Your Hands

In order to reach our goal we will need the help and support of the entire community.  We hope you will connect your legacy with our Project Legacy. In advance, thank you for partnering with us in this critical endeavor and helping to make our founders’ promise an ongoing reality.